The Tricking Hour - Softcover

Silt, Irene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1736210459 ISBN 13: 9781736210451

Publisher: Deluge Books, 2022

Synopsis

What is a world in which work disappears?

"Time has never made any sense to me. Or rather, I am told the way I describe my experience of time does not add up. I am so disconnected from any common meter that I remain in disbelief of that sort of containment. I think this is what makes me a good whore" so begins Irene Silt's The Tricking Hour.

Part anti-work polemic, part sex worker's confession, the luminous essays in The Tricking Hour envision a world organized around collective autonomy, survival, and care, instead of the compulsory exploitation of the body. Silt's dispatches-largely composed between June 2018 and October 2019 and first published as a monthly column in New Orleans' ANTIGRAVITY magazine-are already a cult classic in the movement for sex workers against work. Now collected in book form for the first time, with an additional essay written in 2022, The Tricking Hour is a vital account of sex, labor, and criminality in the twenty-first century.

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About the Author

Irene Silt writes about power, anti-work feeling, joy, and deviance. Their essays and poems have been published in Mask Magazine, ANTIGRAVITY, Spoil, LESTE, Trou Noir, Poiesis Journal and in the Tripwire pamphlet series. They live in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Deluge Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1736210459
• ISBN 13: 9781736210451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80